The reacter I watched literally minutes before this one had half white, half black hair haha. Mutant! 🤣 I'm sure everyone who saw Storm thought "wow she looks a lot like Halle Berry with her hair bleached white" :)
@jerodast was she reacting to the matrix cause I just got done watching someone with half white half black hair right before this too!😂 I don't remember her name though, crazy LOL
@Logan_Baron it certainly seems like he's in everything i love how despite all the other X-men appearing in different timelines and played by different actors [spoilers ahead ] there remains only one Wolverine as played by Hugh Jackman Dawn just delivers another awesome reaction and i'm so glad she's moved onto this franchise . Cheers .
Magneto wanted to turn the global leaders at the summit into mutants, but to use his device to that degree would have killed him. He was using Rogue as a sacrificial source of power for his device.
Rogue not only absorbs their powers. She absorbs everything. Their personality, their memories. That's what she's saying when she says she can still feel the boy she kissed and Logan inside her head. In the comics, she loses her mind and becomes insane because of all the people she absorbed over time. Her mind just couldn't take that many people in her head.
If you didn't know anything about the X-Men why would you know Wolverine, who has been mentioned by himself a million times in the lead up to Deadpool/Wolverine, was a part of that team? Not everyone has the same interest or knowledge as you do or I do.
I grew up with the comics and cartoons, so the Cyclops comment about yellow spandex, myself and many of the others in the movie theater laughed at that joke.
This universe is so massive, you'd be looking up characters for months. I grew up with them, and I can't even keep track of all the comic book characters, teams, and spinoffs. The movies to make it easy though, by just choosing a few to follow through the series of films or television. Keep up the great work, your reactions are priceless, and always fun to watch.
Magneto was at Auschwitz at the start. The comic was designed as an allegory on the Holocaust (it initially came out in 1963). About how how humans distrust, hate and hunt those who are different. As Magneto had been through the Holocaust he saw no hope for humans and was determined to avoid a repeat, so he seeks to beat them first. Professor X hopes for peace. There are a lot more films. Get ready for a wild tride
@aTfouJunkie is correct: The original X-Men comic, from the early sixties, was designed to 'echo' the position /struggle of blacks in America at that time: a hated minority, feared, and partly relegated to 'second-class' status. (the allegory is less than perfect: If the allegory were about Jews, then in that respect, it would have been a better match, as Jews are perceived to "have special powers" in that Jews disproportionately excel and rise to the top of many different societies.) We know that Stan Lee had blacks specifically in mind, because of the two opposed leaders: Xavier and Magneto are intended to 'echo' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X, respectively. The X-Men movie DIRECTLY references (and points to) this at the end of the film, when Magneto utters the line, "by ANY means necessary." "By Any Means Necessary" is the title of the book that Malcolm X wrote, before he was assassinated - so the fact that Magneto says those precise words, is not a coincidence.
Please stop with this nonsense. It was no such thing. It didn't become about "allegory" until Chris Claremont took over, before that it was standard comic fair, nothing special. Stan Lee trying to pretend HE did that is sad, and the fact that so many of you mindlessly repeat shit that can be debunked 5 seconds of searching is getting annoying. You are wrong. Learn to NOT be wrong
In the Netherlands we had very thorough administration, including what religion people had. Because of that, after German occupation, almost every jew in the country could be rounded up easily. Magneto being against registration of mutants would make a much more logic link.
@@TheZeroAssassin Cognitive Dissonance is a powerful thing. I am pleased that your response, brought to my attention, the article on vocal.media by Paco Taylor. My earlier information - that Xavier and Magneto were ••created from the beginning•• to be the 'echo characters' that they're presented as in the X-Men films - was not correct. It stings, but I can take it. I officially owe you one.
And Bruce Davison, as Senator Kelly, was formerly the disturbed rat-loving teen of the 70’s cult-horror “Willard”. There’s a funny BTS clip, as Davison and Romain wait to film their scene in Magneto’s lair, late at night in freezing cold water. Romjin complains about having to film it nude in blue latex, and Davison replies, “Be glad you didn’t have rats…”
The X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man were Marvel's biggest intellectual properties, before the rise of the MCU, which turned the Avengers into household names and made characters, such as Iron Man the face of Marvel. From the release of Iron Man (2008) to The Avengers (2012), the MCU brought the Avengers into the mainstream. However, because Marvel sold off the rights to its biggest IPs, they were unable to use major properties like the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man to begin this interconnected universe. Instead, Marvel Studios focused on staring this universe with the Avengers, lesser known characters they still owned such as Iron Man, building up to The Avengers and then introduce new heroes and teams, like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Antman, Black Panther, and Doctor Strange to name a few examples. The X-Men films though have no connection to the MCU, existing in a separate movie universe, even though Marvel did try to convince Fox to bring the X-Men into the MCU. This contrasts with the comics, where the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man all coexist within the same world and often crossover in storylines. Also due to the X-Men film rights being owned by Fox, the then-president of Marvel made the decision to limit the creation of mutant-related comic book content during the 2010s. His reasoning was that developing more mutant stories or characters would only benefit Fox, as they held the movie rights and could profit from Marvel's creations by creating movies about these storylines and characters. Instead, Marvel focused on promoting the Inhumans in the comics and reduced the visibility of the X-Men. As a result, it became rare to see any X-Men-related content in advertisements, clothing, or artwork. You could buy a Marvel T-shirt, and it would mostly feature Avengers characters and Spider-Man, but rarely any X-Men or even the Fantastic Four. This was a significant shift, as the Fantastic Four, Marvel's first family, were integral to the company's rise in the comic book world. Thankfully they still remained important in the comics, though you could see elements of writers being forced to write them out or make them more background characters to important events. This only lasted for a few years before they finally throw the "promoting the Inhumans" idea of the window and finally started focusing on X-Men, and Fantastic Four again. This lack of promotion in my opinion, along with Marvel Studios not having the rights to the X-Men contributed to a misconception that the X-Men and Fantastic Four weren’t part of Marvel, especially for new fans introduced to the MCU. Many of them only encountered Marvel’s movies and merchandise that prominently featured Avengers characters. As a result, X-Men and the Fantastic Four seemed disconnected from Marvel in the eyes of these newer fans. As of 2019, Disney, which owns Marvel, purchased Fox, reverting the film rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four back to Marvel. This will allow Marvel to finally integrate these iconic teams and characters into the MCU. Since then, we've seen X-Men '97, an amazing animated series developed by Marvel Animation, and next year we have Fantastic Four: First Steps, the film that will introduce the Fantastic Four to the MCU. In the meantime, we've also had the massive hit Deadpool and Wolverine, which was a critical success. All developed by Marvel Studios and Animation. In the following years we'll no doubt see X-Men films set in the MCU with a whole new cast, basically a reboot.
The decision to limit X-men and instead promote Inhumans was direct bargaining strategy because -at the time- Fox refused to share any rights with the parent company, and Marvel needed to show that they had deadlock on the progression of Fox’s property.
People really have a ton of presentism around Marvel and the MCU, they seem to just assume they’ve always been huge. Rewind back as early as the 90’s, even early 00’s, and if I mentioned Iron Man I’d get “who is that, like a Batman sidekick?”. Thor? Like the Viking? Dr. Strange? Who is that? What makes him strange? The only ones people I was around knew was Hulk, mostly because in our age group we remember the 70’s show and Spider-Man, often for the same reason. Mention Peter Parker and I’d get “like the Greatest American Hero?”
12:03 "I don't think she's gonna be _your girl_ for much _longer."_ This is something that's pretty standard when it comes to the _X-Men,_ though. In every version in which all three characters are present (as far as I've seen), there's a romantic triangle between Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine.
Did you not recognize Ian McKellen (Magneto), who played "Gandolph" in Lord of the Rings? "Storm" was played by Halle Berry. "Prof. X" was played by Patrick Stewart, from "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
The Xmen movie concept is great. I like that most characters have relatively limited and specific powers, so they have to work together as a team. Also, the bigger picture social and ethical questions are interesting as well.
I love when someone is so dead-on 'mmm yeah I had no desire to see this' and after watching for 10 min. they're 'I'm so here for this!' As always Dawn Marie never change - your reaction here is beyond adorable (like a kid at Christmas getting one surprise gift after another). This series has its ups and downs but ultimately vastly entertaining and tons of fun. RE: Mystique - yes you will see her human form in the actress portraying her Rebecca Romijn in several of the following films; stay tuned!) IRL Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen are BFFs so that only adds to the ultimate joy of seeing them onscreen together as frienemies. For the record I lurve Famke Janssen who plays Jean Grey *sigh*
I'd been reading the X-Men comics for nearly 20 years when this movie came out, and it was so exciting to finally see these characters on the big screen. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for sharing :) The moment near the end, where a badly wounded Wolverine gives his healing ability to Rogue to save her life, was one of my favorite scenes in the comic. Always hits me in the feels.
"would you prefer yellow spandex?" This is a bit of a cheeky insider shot. For about 30 years in the comics (when this movie was made) Wolverine's traditional/most common outfit was Yellow Spandex.
"He's everywhere just now..." He was everywhere in the comics, for several years - Wolverine is one of the most popular characters Marvel ever created. He's had several movies but this was the first. His healing factor isn't invulnerability; he's not immune from injury or pain, he just recovers from them really fast. So he can beat almost anybody (he's fought the Hulk and survived) but may have to absorb tremendous amounts of damage to do it. Repeated trauma, over many years, has caused gaps in his memory. (Also his hair always looks like that, if he cuts it it just grows back). In comics, the girl who can walk through walls is Kitty Pryde, AKA Shadowcat. Sabretooth has powers similar to Logan's but without the Adamantium or bone claws -OTH his nails are very strong and very sharp. The two of them have a long history in the comics. "If this happened today we wouldn't even know about them because the government would keep them from us...." How do you know they haven't ?
23:00 It took 24 years for Wolverine to finally get his iconic yellow and blue suit after Marvel got the X-Men movie rights back. These early X-Men films are definitely products of their time, released when audiences and most producers were still unsure about comic book movies. While Kevin Feige, Head of Marvel Studios (2007 to Present) and the mastermind behind the entire MCU, pushed for more comic-accurate outfits as a producer on X-Men, everyone else didn't share that vision. The director even went as far as banning comic books from the set, so Feige had to sneak comics in for the cast and suggest ways they could better embody their characters. Just a heads up, the MCU, starting with Iron Man (2008), isn’t connected to the X-Men movies. Fox kept them separate and wanted to do their own thing. Sony was kind of in the same boat, making their own Spider-Man films, until The Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn’t do well. That’s when Marvel stepped in, and they worked with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU with Tom Holland. But Fox never let that happen with the X-Men. This applies to all 2000s Marvel films prior to Iron Man each taking place in their own little bubbles. It wasn't until the MCU that we finally got a Marvel connected universe, just without the X-Men and Fantastic Four.
Comic book accuracy is often overrated. Would certain things in these films have been better if they were more accurate to the source material? Sure. But practically all of the best things about these early X-Men movies are the result of them trying very hard to make them into actual drama films rather than mere "comic book movies." If these films didn't take the liberties with the source material that they did in accordance with that vision, then we wouldn't have gotten the legendary casting of two Shakespearean British actors to play Professor X and Magneto - characters who are both very much not British in the comics. We wouldn't have gotten the awesome redesign of Mystique that was realized through practical effects that are still absolutely incredible to this day, nor would we have gotten the scene-stealing performance of Rebecca Romijn that came with it. They also wouldn't have felt the need to justify the existence of Magento's helmet with an interesting explanation complete with plot significance, which was great enough that it was later incorporated into the comics and has stuck around since. And the list goes on.
I flipping LOVE watching you see stuff like this for the first time, and coming up with names for characters that would not be out of place in the original 60s comics! Xx
What's amazing about the X-Men comics is that stories are analogous to real-life social issues: • Senator Kelly's proposal of a Mutant Registration Act echoes the efforts of U.S. Congress' efforts to ban Communism in the United States. Kelly brandishes a list of known mutants, and exclaims "We must know who these mutants are and what they can do!", a paraphrase of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who claimed to have a list of known American Communists working in the government. • Kelly further questions whether mutants should be allowed to teach children in school, which mirrors the Section 28 issue (the banning of homosexual teachers in British schools, against which Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto) protested). • A deleted scene has Storm teaching a historical lesson about how Emperor Constantine's decree in 312 A.D. ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, and eventually led to Christians becoming the majority, which foreshadows Magneto's plot to force world leaders to accept mutant-kind by mutating them. • Magneto talks about the Act having mutants "in chains, with a number burned into their foreheads." The situation he describes, is similar to what happened to Jews, Romani, homosexuals, disabled people and others who were considered to be subhuman by Nazi Germany (which a young Magneto experiences in the first scenes). • Magneto's last lines contain the phrase "By any means necessary." This phrase was coined by civil rights revolutionary Malcolm X. The relationship between Magneto and Professor X has been compared, respectively, to that of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom held differing philosophical views.
The connection to the Civil Rights Era comes up pretty often, with Xavier compared to MLK and Magneto to Malcolm X. Both fighting for the rights of a minority, but using very different methods.
10:37 Logan lost his mind after the metal-bonding operation.( '75).busted out of the lab and ran wild in the Canadian forests for years, sometimes with a wolf pack. He was actually born around 1742, his healing factor and claws from his hands were pure bone, kicked in at around 14. I still loved the chemistry between McKellan and Stewart.. lines straight from the comics, including that last talk in the plastic prison.23:07-They wore the yellow spandex for the first 43 issues before Storm,Rouge and Wolverine joined. Really fun reactions, Dawn!
I understand what you mean about pre judging movies. As a kid, I used to think Superheroes were lame. Don't know why I thought that. I liked Star Wars, I was massively into Warhammer, I loved playing nerdy video games. I was a proper nerd and yet Superhero films were too nerdy for me. And yet I watched the X-Men films and loved them. Thing is, for some reason, I never connected X-Men and Superheroes together. I thought it was just a sci-fi, what if humanity evolved sort of film. It never once occurred to me that X-Men, Fantastic Four, Blade and Spiderman were all Marvel. When I opened myself up to the idea of Superheroes, starting with Batman Begins, I realised that I was wrong to judge them.
That girl that you thought you had seen before, that is the girl who Plays Sookie Stackhouse on TRUE BLOOD. Anna Paquin is her real name. And great review. I think that you REALLY liked this movie. The way you giggled, and your face lit up whenever something happened. You were loving it. I'm glad that you gave X-Men a shot. The series is amazing. I hope you watch more of the series. And thank you for sharing this with us. 👍👍
Dawn is all of us with our first X-Men experiences! Whether it was comics, cartoon, or movies, we all fell in love with it. This was so much fun to watch
- Senator Kelley really did die, in this X-Men film: His body disintegrated at the cellular level when he "turned to water." It's completely different from something like, say, the T-1000 in "Terminator 2" where the small liquid-like pieces meld together and he gets up, good-as-new. - Charles Xavier ••could have•• read Mystique's mind when Mystique snuck into the mansion to freak-out Rogue and to sabotage the Cerebro machine... but Charles typically has a pretty restrained use of his powers, by his own choice. Note that Charles only took control of others' minds-and-bodies once in the film: Toad and Sabretooth, to attempt to persuade Magneto to release Rogue. Xavier isn't monitoring all the people around him all the time - not to that degree. Xavier could have been Dictator-of-all-humanity very easily, yet he chose to go the peaceful route entirely, and spend his energies developing the School as an Oasis for Mutants, in a hostile world. - Mystique, in these first three films, is played by Rebecca Romijn (listed in the credits under her then-hybrid married name of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. (It's pronounced 'Ro-MAINE' -- like the State of Maine). She appears briefly the way the actress "really looks" in X-Men 2. She also has a brief cameo role in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and plays "Number One/Una" in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.') Yes, she is naked during the Mystique scenes, except for a lot of body paint and special prosthetics that simulate Mystique's scales. (There are RUclips videos that were originally DVD extras, that show Mrs. Romijn doing the Mystique makeup process.) ...In films after this first X-Men trilogy, Mystique is played by Jennifer Lawrence. I do prefer the Rebecca Romijn version. - A careful reading of the heroes, shows that all of them have an uncomfortable dual-nature: You wouldn't necessarily want to be them, because of the baggage that goes along with the benefits: • Xavier can control peoples' minds... yet he can't stand up or walk. He's also a sort of 'guardian' who carries terrible burdens inside, which will be revealed in the films ahead. • Logan can heal himself from almost any injury, but has no memories of his past, AND is plagued by bad dreams of the government experiments that gave him the metal skeleton and claws... AND he doesn't like who he is: an animal-like, uncontrollable rage that erupts from him at times (like the Hulk), AND that 'bad things' seem to happen to people close to him. Logan's whole existence is defined by suffering - so you'd only want to be him, if you were an idiot. • Cyclops can blast things with his 'optic blasts' - but he MUST have his eyes shielded at all times, with the exotic "sunglasses" or the 'Cyclops' visor; He can never do the simple thing of have someone look at his 'naked' face. • Rogue can absorb others' life-force (or mutant powers), but she can't touch someone without the power kicking in: no kisses, no hugs, no handshakes, no lovemaking... so, it's a curse.
The yellow spandex reference at 23.00 refers to Wolverine in the X-Men comics. The recent Wolverine and Deadpool movie references this movie, when he gets his yellow outfit he's asked if he was expecting black leather
Magneto couldn't even walk unassisted after powering the machine the first time, so they wanted the girl to power it using his powers instead. They even referred to her as a sacrifice.
Back when I was still acting, I fought like crazy trying to get into this. I collected X-Men comics my whole life, and so dearly wanted to play Cyclops. I know that character like I know myself. Sent letters and emails to anyone and everyone involved with the film. Couldn't get a sniff. Ah, what might have been.
Knowing that you were reluctant to watch this, it was so much fun seeing how much you enjoyed the movie. Part 2 is even better and a fan favorite. Looking forward to your reactions for the rest of the series.
Her and PopCornInBed are the best 2 on RUclips by far. Just wish they wouldn't waste an entire month doing crappy horror movies! A handful would be enough.
That was funny watching how quickly you went from don't want to watch it to being really invested in it. I give a lot of credit to the script writing for this one. It did a great job of introducing the idea of mutants and powers to a public that might have no knowledge of it to begin with. I loved the part where you were getting emotional from seeing the kids find belonging in the school after experiencing rejection from their families and society. Mutants were created in the comics as a metaphor to do stories that commented on our fear and mistreatment of minorities or people who were different. That idea continues to be relevant.
"Do you know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?" Like the script, I have been trying for years to think of a suitable conclusion to that line. I think my best one was (and you have to put this in Halle Berry's voice): "He croaks under pressure." Has anyone ever come up with a good one? Best reaction ever! And always fun when someone doesn't recognise Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart from everything else they've done! "Currently, no one knows." "His legs fall off and it's soup night in Paris."
Hello Dawn!😊 Wolverine had two spinoff films during the X-Men series but they are not great, IMO. Only the last wolverine film "Logan" (2017) is a great film. Wolverine's yellow costume originated from the comics. Great reactions to your first X-Men film, Dawn!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
16:44 "Oh. So you _didn't_ kill him." No. She just realized how _terrible_ her power is. She can absorb someone's essence through skin-to-skin contact, but if she holds on too long, they die, whether she wants them to or not. This _could_ be an incredibly useful ability... if she could turn it off. That's what's truly unfortunate about Marie.
Toad in the comics originally could just jump well. He was called Toad in part because he was Magneto's toadie. This movie really made him more powerful and this bled into the comics. Wolverine originally had a healing factor combined with animal-like senses (enhanced sense of smell primarily) as well as bone claws. The experiments grafted metal onto all of his bones, including his claws. I've often wondered why this didn't affect his teeth, but it turns out teeth aren't actually bone, despite what I'd been taught as a kid. Chalk that up on the board of things you learn in elementary school that aren't true, along with the idea that rabbits are rodents.
Next is X2, a great superhero movie on its own. Further down the line, you'll get to what is arguably the best prequel ever made with X-Men First Class. And then after The Wolverine, you'll come to what I consider to be the best superhero movie period, X-Men Days of Future Past. After that you have what I consider to be the best superhero comedy in Deadpool
30:26 After this movie came out you could not go anywhere in the US without seeing glass chess sets for sale. They took over the game shelves at big box retailers and were even being sold at retailers that normally didn't carry board games like Blockbuster, Best Buy, and Circuit City. I even saw them for sale at convenience store gas stations. Fast forward to the future and they have been clogging the shelves at thrift stores ever since, lol. They have slowed down somewhat, but I remember a time in the mid 2000s where you couldn't kick them out of your way in thrift shops.
I enjoyed this reaction so much I wished I could jump immediately to your reaction to X2: United. Thank you, Dawn, for teaching me the value of deferred gratification.
The "yellow spandex" quip was a reference to the cartoons, where Wolverine wears a bright yellow spandex costume. Regarding the blades hurting every time they come out, I'd imagine you'd become accustomed to the pain eventually, so the blades coming out is a minor pain. Considering Wolverine's natural mutant ability is regeneration, the pain likely doesn't last long, either.
In the comics, mutants are classified by relative human appearance and power level. Some look far from normal and have little power, others can have vast powers and look normal, and every combination therein.
As someone who has always been a comic reader, and marvel movie fanatic, its always so interesting watching someones reaction who knows NOTHING. I love it, Cause in my head im like, THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE. AND ITS NOT. AND IK ITS NOT. UR QUESTIONS ARE SO VALID. LMAO.
Logan's power is accelerated healing. It is what allowed him to survive the procedure that grafted adamantium onto his bone, a military experiment. Adamantium, when cast and hardened, is indestructable. Yes, he has great reflexes and senses. And if you had that healing factor how would your gym work pay off? You could easily get huge. And, hat tip to the actor, by the end of his run as the character, he is truly a Huge Jacked Man. Seriously. Logan is also very old. He has fought in many wars and is one of the most experienced and capable soldiers alive. Ray Park, the actor who plays Toad, was also Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. Ray is a martial arts expert. Mystique is a very skilled mutant, aside from her shapeshifting. See the second film for more. It's really good. Also, Sabertooth is Logan's brother.
Director Bryan Singer claimed he’d never read the comics, and got all his backstory research from the classic ‘92 “X-Men: the Animated Series” cartoon, still one of the best Marvel 101 series ever made. Don’t know if it’s streaming on Disney+ Scotland, but we’ve got five seasons of the show streaming over here, for those who want to study up in a hurry, as well as the new “X-Men ‘97” revival that may be one of the best current shows on streaming.
4:30 Actually these movies.came from the.comics and the person who made those comics (Stan Lee) actually cameos in this movie and the others. There.was also a cartoon for X-men as well. 14:18 older guy with sunglasses, blue long sleeve button up shirt, and red shorts is Stan Lee (creator of the X-men and many other famous comics). 23:10 the yellow spandex is from the comics what his actual costume looked like in that. 24:55 yes basically a bodypaint oiutfit. I forgot how long it took for her to be made up for the scene, but there are some docimentaries that go behind the scenes and talked about it. 25:50 he smelled her before she talked to him. To find out the history, watch them in RELEASE order. There is 2 more of this series, then there are "prequel" type of movies. So X2, and X3: the last stand. Then Watch Xmen first class, .then days of future past, xmen: armageddon, and dark phoenix. You will get a lot of backstories. Magneato qanted to use Rogue because using the machine for such a large "blast" would kill him. So he gave Rogue is powers as she was expendable in his eyes. He would love, while she was used to power the machine to her death.
With all these super hero’s movies from Marvel, DC universes , plus such movies franchises as Transformers, Jane Bond, etc., you can react to movies till you’r over 60 years old, Dawn. And we’ll be with you all the way !!! Can’t wait for you to react to the 1st Captain America movie, Dawn !!! 😎👍💯
We all knew that the bit with you at the begining" no not interested in this because iv made up my mind" to then see more questions in the first 15 mins than we thought poss is great :) watch the rest of the films in order and then all, well most, questions will be answered >:)
The big guy is named sabertooth. Not all the X-Men’s rock, they all don’t suck either. Some of them are actually pretty freaking good. the fact that they were on the big screen is what we were happy about.
Dawn, Glad you enjoyed this, and you picked up the story very well. X-Men has been around in the comics since the 1960's, with a library full of xpin-offs, retcons, alternate histories, and crossovers with other Marvel comics. For the films, it is best to start with this one, and watch the others in release order. The continuity is not completely accurate between films, unfortunately. so be prepared for that. Some of the differences are explained, but can't say too much without spoiling it for you.
Darth Maul. Ray Park is really a Martial Artist turned actor, having been in his first movie as a stunt double in Mortal Kombat Annihilation for Liu Kang and Raiden. 😂
It shocks and saddens me when people can't recognize the Holocaust without having it explicitly stated that's what it is. Poland, 1944, military herding people into caged off area, Star of David patches, forced labor, numbered tattoos. I wonder what this place could be.
Dawn, you are right about Wolverine. His most remarkable power is his ability to heal, it makes him very nearly immortal. The adamantium skeleton enhancement and the claws was an experiment done to him called the Weapon X program. If he did not have that healing ability, doing that to him would have been fatal. As for the climactic save, Rogue was on the edge of death, absorbs Wolverine's life force, then he was on the edge of death. Rogue is notable in the comics for the fact that she can actually steal other mutants' powers permanently, if she does it to the point where it kills them. (So she is one of the few who might be able to actually kill Wolverine, if that had scene had gone on a bit longer.)
The girl you thought you had seen somewhere else is Anna Paquin who played the main character Sookie Stockhouse in True Blood which is likely where you've seen her.
Great Reaction Once Again from you Dawn, Welcome to the X-men franchise I Can't even remember how many of these films they made.(Just like you i Didn't go to school either, Must be a Glasgow thing 😉🤣)Yeah your right Wolverine did get his own franchise the best one was Logan. Hang on a minute didn't you also have white hair, Omg Your Scottish Storm😊🙂Enjoy Your Weekend
If you didn’t see the Superman movie , “ Man Of Steel, “ you should react to this film very soon, you’ll have a crush on this new Superman like you did on the older Superman in the 70’s movies, Dawn !!!😃😎👍
When It comes to X Men is like my favorite I grew up with the cartoons and the movies I remember seeing this movie when it first came out in the theaters so this my favorite Marvel franchise.
Wolverine had the claws. The metal was surgically put around his bones. So now the claws are surrounded by metal. He can also self heal, has a great sense of smell and hearing,like a wolverine.
The bone claws were not added to his background until the early 90s. I want to say about '93 (it's been a while). From 1974-1992 the claws were only added with the adamantium skeleton.
@16:10 - The extras in the railroad car scene did not know they were going to actually rip the car apart. So their reactions were real. In film/videos physical actions like that are called "practical effects", while camera tricks and CGI are called "special effects". Genetic mutations (natural changes) are a real thing that happen all the time. The premise of the X-men stories is a particular gene evolved that allows people to gain powers. It was a small number at first, but due to atomic tests after 1945, the higher radiation levels caused more mutants to appear. But the underlying metaphor is the X-Men represent any group that is discriminated against or worse for being different. The opening scene shows an example of that - Nazi-era herding of Jews and other "undesirables" into concentration camps to be killed or used as slaves. My mother's best friend was a camp survivor with a number tattoo'ed on her forearm, so that scene hits me hard.
So tempted to spill all but I was chastised last time I got ahead of someone's starting a franchise but from the age of comic books I have been a fan of this genre Marvel, D. C. Love how you took to the genre and hope you continue, all smiles Dawn 😊
You're in for a wild ride. This is why it helps to keep an open mind. I would try to watch them based on the release date and not what someone else might recommend so that you'll see the movies as the audiences saw them, and not just the way that someone thinks they should be watched. Oh and also, Magneto is Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, which should shock you.
A reality (within the scope of the X-Men) that I only just got... during the Statue of Liberty scene, Storm didn't have to do squat. Jean could have just just TK'd (telekinesis) Logan up to the torch herself. In the scope of the writing, I guess it makes some sense that they all work together, but given Jean's ability... As far as who is the most powerful? Xavier is extremely powerful when it comes to the mind, but his range is limited without Cerebro. Jean has the potential of being just as powerful, but again (without the Phoenix Force which will be learned about later) is limited in range (as far as I know). Storm can can affect the Earth's atmosphere world-wide if she so chooses. She could very much turn the whole planet into an icecube or desert or covered in rampaging tornadoes. Magneto could theoretically throw the entire planet into the sun or pull every planet in the solar system into Earth. And there are other mutants even more crazy that will never grace the cinema screen.
This was a good, if safe, introduction to the X-Men. There are (starting with X2) 3 or 4 great movies in this franchise and some stinkers to balance things out. The only thing that annoys me about these films is 1. How dirty they do both Scott and Jean 2. How tame the X-Men's powers are compared to the comics 3. How muddled the timeline gets. and despite how much I like Hugh Jackman 4. How much Wolverine they have showed down our throats over the last 25 years while neglecting other characters But then X-Men 97' comes along and gives me everything I wanted since I was a teenager going to the comic shop every week in the 90's to grab all the new issues of the various X-Men titles... so alls well.
Mutantcy is typically *genetically inherited.* Sometimes a mutant inherits the same or similar powers as their parents, but sometimes their powers are completely different. Sometimes, you won't even inherit your parents' mutant genes at all, so it's possible to be born from mutants and not be a mutant yourself. But as you can see from Magneto's machine, there are methods to force mutation onto non-mutants.
You asked "who's strongest?" That is kind of hard to answer, especially since there are many you haven't met yet. However, generally speaking, in this particular movie the two most powerful mutants would be Jean and Storm for reasons you haven't been introduced to yet. With all things nerd, you can definitely argue about this, but yeah, Jean and Storm have abilities that essentially make them goddesses. But it gets more complicated and WAY more nerdy the deeper you dive.
I dont know why people assume the word mutant is a negative thing! We are all mutants, unless you are an identical twin we all have variations of genes! Also you wanted wolverine to touch her so that she could absorb his powers, yet couldnt understand how magneto could put his power into her...
they had a blooper reel of scenes and one was instead of Wolverine when they were in the base of the Statue of Liberty, Spider-Man ran up behind them and the cast broke out laughing.
I'm so happy. I've hoped you'd dip your toes into the Marvel Universe for a long time now. By the way, Magneto's power is what powered the mutant maker machine but using it at full power would kill him. That's why he moved his power to Rogue. He used her as a battery. You're making pretty good guesses on things. Future movies start explaining it. It's going to be fun experiencing it again with you.
I first watched Deadpool & Wolverine last weekend, and have spent the past week binging reactions to it. Having become so accustomed to 2024 Hugh Jackman, 2000 Hugh Jackman looks like a child.
26:24 Copper conducts electricity. If Storm summons a lightning bolt to fry Magneto, she'd electrocute everyone there because the statue is made of copper. So yeah, not a great idea.
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"She doesn't look human, her hair's white"
So was yours until recently. 😂
The reacter I watched literally minutes before this one had half white, half black hair haha. Mutant! 🤣 I'm sure everyone who saw Storm thought "wow she looks a lot like Halle Berry with her hair bleached white" :)
@jerodast was she reacting to the matrix cause I just got done watching someone with half white half black hair right before this too!😂 I don't remember her name though, crazy LOL
"He's like a sasquatch" Nope that's another character.
"He's like a blob" Also another character.
"He's in like a hundred more movies" Til he's 90.
Make sure to deliberately whisper the 'Til he's 90'
@Logan_Baron it certainly seems like he's in everything i love how despite all the other X-men appearing in different timelines and played by different actors [spoilers ahead ] there remains only one Wolverine as played by Hugh Jackman
Dawn just delivers another awesome reaction and i'm so glad she's moved onto this franchise .
Cheers .
Magneto wanted to turn the global leaders at the summit into mutants, but to use his device to that degree would have killed him. He was using Rogue as a sacrificial source of power for his device.
Rogue not only absorbs their powers. She absorbs everything. Their personality, their memories. That's what she's saying when she says she can still feel the boy she kissed and Logan inside her head. In the comics, she loses her mind and becomes insane because of all the people she absorbed over time. Her mind just couldn't take that many people in her head.
The actor who played Toad was also Darth Maul in Star Wars EP 1
He also is Scottish but sounds Australian in some interviews. It's pretty funny.
Based on his performances as Toad and Darth Maul, he built his career on looking bad but going out like a punk.
@@BouillaBased Snake Eyes in the first GI Joe movie was awesome though, and he played him. 😂
Sorry but I think is boring to fill the commentaries with the same again and again
6:49 no, Sasquatch is a member of Alpha Flight.
Along with my personal pal, Puck.
Not knowing Wolverine was a member of the x-men is truly wild
_Wild, huh?_
If you didn't know anything about the X-Men why would you know Wolverine, who has been mentioned by himself a million times in the lead up to Deadpool/Wolverine, was a part of that team? Not everyone has the same interest or knowledge as you do or I do.
@TheSwordOfTheJedi-u2p there's the comment i was looking for, lol... full of excuses
Do they teach them nothing in school anymore???
I grew up with the comics and cartoons, so the Cyclops comment about yellow spandex, myself and many of the others in the movie theater laughed at that joke.
Given the way Dawn geeked out over Transformers, it was pretty much guaranteed she would like X-Men
They're not similar
This universe is so massive, you'd be looking up characters for months. I grew up with them, and I can't even keep track of all the comic book characters, teams, and spinoffs.
The movies to make it easy though, by just choosing a few to follow through the series of films or television.
Keep up the great work, your reactions are priceless, and always fun to watch.
Magneto was at Auschwitz at the start. The comic was designed as an allegory on the Holocaust (it initially came out in 1963). About how how humans distrust, hate and hunt those who are different. As Magneto had been through the Holocaust he saw no hope for humans and was determined to avoid a repeat, so he seeks to beat them first. Professor X hopes for peace. There are a lot more films. Get ready for a wild tride
It was designed as an allegory for Civil Rights, not just the Holocaust. Stan Lee truly was a genius.
@aTfouJunkie is correct: The original X-Men comic, from the early sixties, was designed to 'echo' the position /struggle of blacks in America at that time: a hated minority, feared, and partly relegated to 'second-class' status. (the allegory is less than perfect: If the allegory were about Jews, then in that respect, it would have been a better match, as Jews are perceived to "have special powers" in that Jews disproportionately excel and rise to the top of many different societies.) We know that Stan Lee had blacks specifically in mind, because of the two opposed leaders: Xavier and Magneto are intended to 'echo' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X, respectively. The X-Men movie DIRECTLY references (and points to) this at the end of the film, when Magneto utters the line, "by ANY means necessary." "By Any Means Necessary" is the title of the book that Malcolm X wrote, before he was assassinated - so the fact that Magneto says those precise words, is not a coincidence.
Please stop with this nonsense. It was no such thing. It didn't become about "allegory" until Chris Claremont took over, before that it was standard comic fair, nothing special. Stan Lee trying to pretend HE did that is sad, and the fact that so many of you mindlessly repeat shit that can be debunked 5 seconds of searching is getting annoying. You are wrong. Learn to NOT be wrong
In the Netherlands we had very thorough administration, including what religion people had. Because of that, after German occupation, almost every jew in the country could be rounded up easily.
Magneto being against registration of mutants would make a much more logic link.
@@TheZeroAssassin Cognitive Dissonance is a powerful thing. I am pleased that your response, brought to my attention, the article on vocal.media by Paco Taylor. My earlier information - that Xavier and Magneto were ••created from the beginning•• to be the 'echo characters' that they're presented as in the X-Men films - was not correct. It stings, but I can take it. I officially owe you one.
Mystique was played by Rebecca Romijn. She had latex prosthetics covering her naughty bits, the rest was basically paint.
She and her ex-spouse, Jon Stamos, were publicly avowed nudists.
And Bruce Davison, as Senator Kelly, was formerly the disturbed rat-loving teen of the 70’s cult-horror “Willard”.
There’s a funny BTS clip, as Davison and Romain wait to film their scene in Magneto’s lair, late at night in freezing cold water. Romjin complains about having to film it nude in blue latex, and Davison replies, “Be glad you didn’t have rats…”
The X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man were Marvel's biggest intellectual properties, before the rise of the MCU, which turned the Avengers into household names and made characters, such as Iron Man the face of Marvel. From the release of Iron Man (2008) to The Avengers (2012), the MCU brought the Avengers into the mainstream. However, because Marvel sold off the rights to its biggest IPs, they were unable to use major properties like the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man to begin this interconnected universe. Instead, Marvel Studios focused on staring this universe with the Avengers, lesser known characters they still owned such as Iron Man, building up to The Avengers and then introduce new heroes and teams, like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Antman, Black Panther, and Doctor Strange to name a few examples. The X-Men films though have no connection to the MCU, existing in a separate movie universe, even though Marvel did try to convince Fox to bring the X-Men into the MCU. This contrasts with the comics, where the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man all coexist within the same world and often crossover in storylines.
Also due to the X-Men film rights being owned by Fox, the then-president of Marvel made the decision to limit the creation of mutant-related comic book content during the 2010s. His reasoning was that developing more mutant stories or characters would only benefit Fox, as they held the movie rights and could profit from Marvel's creations by creating movies about these storylines and characters.
Instead, Marvel focused on promoting the Inhumans in the comics and reduced the visibility of the X-Men. As a result, it became rare to see any X-Men-related content in advertisements, clothing, or artwork. You could buy a Marvel T-shirt, and it would mostly feature Avengers characters and Spider-Man, but rarely any X-Men or even the Fantastic Four. This was a significant shift, as the Fantastic Four, Marvel's first family, were integral to the company's rise in the comic book world. Thankfully they still remained important in the comics, though you could see elements of writers being forced to write them out or make them more background characters to important events. This only lasted for a few years before they finally throw the "promoting the Inhumans" idea of the window and finally started focusing on X-Men, and Fantastic Four again.
This lack of promotion in my opinion, along with Marvel Studios not having the rights to the X-Men contributed to a misconception that the X-Men and Fantastic Four weren’t part of Marvel, especially for new fans introduced to the MCU. Many of them only encountered Marvel’s movies and merchandise that prominently featured Avengers characters. As a result, X-Men and the Fantastic Four seemed disconnected from Marvel in the eyes of these newer fans.
As of 2019, Disney, which owns Marvel, purchased Fox, reverting the film rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four back to Marvel. This will allow Marvel to finally integrate these iconic teams and characters into the MCU. Since then, we've seen X-Men '97, an amazing animated series developed by Marvel Animation, and next year we have Fantastic Four: First Steps, the film that will introduce the Fantastic Four to the MCU. In the meantime, we've also had the massive hit Deadpool and Wolverine, which was a critical success. All developed by Marvel Studios and Animation. In the following years we'll no doubt see X-Men films set in the MCU with a whole new cast, basically a reboot.
Don't forget the last doctor strange
The decision to limit X-men and instead promote Inhumans was direct bargaining strategy because -at the time- Fox refused to share any rights with the parent company, and Marvel needed to show that they had deadlock on the progression of Fox’s property.
People really have a ton of presentism around Marvel and the MCU, they seem to just assume they’ve always been huge. Rewind back as early as the 90’s, even early 00’s, and if I mentioned Iron Man I’d get “who is that, like a Batman sidekick?”.
Thor? Like the Viking?
Dr. Strange? Who is that? What makes him strange?
The only ones people I was around knew was Hulk, mostly because in our age group we remember the 70’s show and Spider-Man, often for the same reason. Mention Peter Parker and I’d get “like the Greatest American Hero?”
I can't believe this movie is 24 years old! I remember when it was new.
12:03 "I don't think she's gonna be _your girl_ for much _longer."_
This is something that's pretty standard when it comes to the _X-Men,_ though. In every version in which all three characters are present (as far as I've seen), there's a romantic triangle between Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine.
And yet at the end she's like "wait was there something between them?"
Did you not recognize Ian McKellen (Magneto), who played "Gandolph" in Lord of the Rings? "Storm" was played by Halle Berry. "Prof. X" was played by Patrick Stewart, from "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
"Gandolph" in Lard of the Wrongs.
McKellen was also the Grim Reaper in The Last Action Hero
Gandolph? It's Gandalf
The Xmen movie concept is great. I like that most characters have relatively limited and specific powers, so they have to work together as a team. Also, the bigger picture social and ethical questions are interesting as well.
I love when someone is so dead-on 'mmm yeah I had no desire to see this' and after watching for 10 min. they're 'I'm so here for this!' As always Dawn Marie never change - your reaction here is beyond adorable (like a kid at Christmas getting one surprise gift after another). This series has its ups and downs but ultimately vastly entertaining and tons of fun. RE: Mystique - yes you will see her human form in the actress portraying her Rebecca Romijn in several of the following films; stay tuned!) IRL Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen are BFFs so that only adds to the ultimate joy of seeing them onscreen together as frienemies. For the record I lurve Famke Janssen who plays Jean Grey *sigh*
The Human form is her adopting a disguise though. The blue variant is what she really looks like
Wolverines powers 1.healing 2.boneclaws before the metal into his body 3.keen sense of smell
@@gregkirby9059 his true power is survial, its really true power is popularity
4. Can do the 90m ski jump in jeans while smoking a cigarette
@@Raven5150 And Plot Armor, the most powerful superpower ever
It's not just smell. All his senses are like those of a wild animal.
@@TheVanillatech Johnny storm can do that
I'd been reading the X-Men comics for nearly 20 years when this movie came out, and it was so exciting to finally see these characters on the big screen. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for sharing :)
The moment near the end, where a badly wounded Wolverine gives his healing ability to Rogue to save her life, was one of my favorite scenes in the comic. Always hits me in the feels.
Sir Captain Xavier and Sir Magneto The Grey were perfectly cast.
"would you prefer yellow spandex?" This is a bit of a cheeky insider shot. For about 30 years in the comics (when this movie was made) Wolverine's traditional/most common outfit was Yellow Spandex.
"He's everywhere just now..." He was everywhere in the comics, for several years - Wolverine is one of the most popular characters Marvel ever created. He's had several movies but this was the first. His healing factor isn't invulnerability; he's not immune from injury or pain, he just recovers from them really fast. So he can beat almost anybody (he's fought the Hulk and survived) but may have to absorb tremendous amounts of damage to do it. Repeated trauma, over many years, has caused gaps in his memory. (Also his hair always looks like that, if he cuts it it just grows back).
In comics, the girl who can walk through walls is Kitty Pryde, AKA Shadowcat.
Sabretooth has powers similar to Logan's but without the Adamantium or bone claws -OTH his nails are very strong and very sharp. The two of them have a long history in the comics.
"If this happened today we wouldn't even know about them because the government would keep them from us...." How do you know they haven't ?
Mystique’s real form is that blue form she looks like that naturally. Some mutants can pass for human and others can’t. that’s just how it is.
Rebecca Romjin's costume was composed of latex patches covering up her private parts.
The yellow spandex joke is because that’s what wolverine wears in the comic books..
20:45 "Power the machine"
It's only three words. Not even big words!
23:00 It took 24 years for Wolverine to finally get his iconic yellow and blue suit after Marvel got the X-Men movie rights back. These early X-Men films are definitely products of their time, released when audiences and most producers were still unsure about comic book movies. While Kevin Feige, Head of Marvel Studios (2007 to Present) and the mastermind behind the entire MCU, pushed for more comic-accurate outfits as a producer on X-Men, everyone else didn't share that vision. The director even went as far as banning comic books from the set, so Feige had to sneak comics in for the cast and suggest ways they could better embody their characters.
Just a heads up, the MCU, starting with Iron Man (2008), isn’t connected to the X-Men movies. Fox kept them separate and wanted to do their own thing. Sony was kind of in the same boat, making their own Spider-Man films, until The Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn’t do well. That’s when Marvel stepped in, and they worked with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU with Tom Holland. But Fox never let that happen with the X-Men. This applies to all 2000s Marvel films prior to Iron Man each taking place in their own little bubbles. It wasn't until the MCU that we finally got a Marvel connected universe, just without the X-Men and Fantastic Four.
Yeah, but it was better that they did not. Reasonable that it took something silly like Deadpool to do it.
Disney, X-Men solution: buy Fox.
Comic book accuracy is often overrated. Would certain things in these films have been better if they were more accurate to the source material? Sure. But practically all of the best things about these early X-Men movies are the result of them trying very hard to make them into actual drama films rather than mere "comic book movies." If these films didn't take the liberties with the source material that they did in accordance with that vision, then we wouldn't have gotten the legendary casting of two Shakespearean British actors to play Professor X and Magneto - characters who are both very much not British in the comics. We wouldn't have gotten the awesome redesign of Mystique that was realized through practical effects that are still absolutely incredible to this day, nor would we have gotten the scene-stealing performance of Rebecca Romijn that came with it. They also wouldn't have felt the need to justify the existence of Magento's helmet with an interesting explanation complete with plot significance, which was great enough that it was later incorporated into the comics and has stuck around since. And the list goes on.
I flipping LOVE watching you see stuff like this for the first time, and coming up with names for characters that would not be out of place in the original 60s comics! Xx
What's amazing about the X-Men comics is that stories are analogous to real-life social issues:
• Senator Kelly's proposal of a Mutant Registration Act echoes the efforts of U.S. Congress' efforts to ban Communism in the United States. Kelly brandishes a list of known mutants, and exclaims "We must know who these mutants are and what they can do!", a paraphrase of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who claimed to have a list of known American Communists working in the government.
• Kelly further questions whether mutants should be allowed to teach children in school, which mirrors the Section 28 issue (the banning of homosexual teachers in British schools, against which Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto) protested).
• A deleted scene has Storm teaching a historical lesson about how Emperor Constantine's decree in 312 A.D. ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, and eventually led to Christians becoming the majority, which foreshadows Magneto's plot to force world leaders to accept mutant-kind by mutating them.
• Magneto talks about the Act having mutants "in chains, with a number burned into their foreheads." The situation he describes, is similar to what happened to Jews, Romani, homosexuals, disabled people and others who were considered to be subhuman by Nazi Germany (which a young Magneto experiences in the first scenes).
• Magneto's last lines contain the phrase "By any means necessary." This phrase was coined by civil rights revolutionary Malcolm X. The relationship between Magneto and Professor X has been compared, respectively, to that of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom held differing philosophical views.
and like Sen Kelly in the film(s), Sen McCarthy turned out to be completely correct and was 100% vindicated by subsequent events.
If anything McCarthy underestimated the c-word threat
The connection to the Civil Rights Era comes up pretty often, with Xavier compared to MLK and Magneto to Malcolm X. Both fighting for the rights of a minority, but using very different methods.
10:37 Logan lost his mind after the metal-bonding operation.( '75).busted out of the lab and ran wild in the Canadian forests for years, sometimes with a wolf pack. He was actually born around 1742, his healing factor and claws from his hands were pure bone, kicked in at around 14. I still loved the chemistry between McKellan and Stewart.. lines straight from the comics, including that last talk in the plastic prison.23:07-They wore the yellow spandex for the first 43 issues before Storm,Rouge and Wolverine joined. Really fun reactions, Dawn!
"Time to see what storm can do"
The name is pretty self explanatory.
I understand what you mean about pre judging movies. As a kid, I used to think Superheroes were lame. Don't know why I thought that. I liked Star Wars, I was massively into Warhammer, I loved playing nerdy video games. I was a proper nerd and yet Superhero films were too nerdy for me. And yet I watched the X-Men films and loved them. Thing is, for some reason, I never connected X-Men and Superheroes together. I thought it was just a sci-fi, what if humanity evolved sort of film. It never once occurred to me that X-Men, Fantastic Four, Blade and Spiderman were all Marvel. When I opened myself up to the idea of Superheroes, starting with Batman Begins, I realised that I was wrong to judge them.
That girl that you thought you had seen before, that is the girl who Plays Sookie Stackhouse on TRUE BLOOD. Anna Paquin is her real name. And great review. I think that you REALLY liked this movie. The way you giggled, and your face lit up whenever something happened. You were loving it. I'm glad that you gave X-Men a shot. The series is amazing. I hope you watch more of the series. And thank you for sharing this with us. 👍👍
Dawn is all of us with our first X-Men experiences! Whether it was comics, cartoon, or movies, we all fell in love with it. This was so much fun to watch
- Senator Kelley really did die, in this X-Men film: His body disintegrated at the cellular level when he "turned to water." It's completely different from something like, say, the T-1000 in "Terminator 2" where the small liquid-like pieces meld together and he gets up, good-as-new.
- Charles Xavier ••could have•• read Mystique's mind when Mystique snuck into the mansion to freak-out Rogue and to sabotage the Cerebro machine... but Charles typically has a pretty restrained use of his powers, by his own choice. Note that Charles only took control of others' minds-and-bodies once in the film: Toad and Sabretooth, to attempt to persuade Magneto to release Rogue. Xavier isn't monitoring all the people around him all the time - not to that degree. Xavier could have been Dictator-of-all-humanity very easily, yet he chose to go the peaceful route entirely, and spend his energies developing the School as an Oasis for Mutants, in a hostile world.
- Mystique, in these first three films, is played by Rebecca Romijn (listed in the credits under her then-hybrid married name of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. (It's pronounced 'Ro-MAINE' -- like the State of Maine). She appears briefly the way the actress "really looks" in X-Men 2. She also has a brief cameo role in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and plays "Number One/Una" in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.') Yes, she is naked during the Mystique scenes, except for a lot of body paint and special prosthetics that simulate Mystique's scales. (There are RUclips videos that were originally DVD extras, that show Mrs. Romijn doing the Mystique makeup process.) ...In films after this first X-Men trilogy, Mystique is played by Jennifer Lawrence. I do prefer the Rebecca Romijn version.
- A careful reading of the heroes, shows that all of them have an uncomfortable dual-nature: You wouldn't necessarily want to be them, because of the baggage that goes along with the benefits:
• Xavier can control peoples' minds... yet he can't stand up or walk. He's also a sort of 'guardian' who carries terrible burdens inside, which will be revealed in the films ahead.
• Logan can heal himself from almost any injury, but has no memories of his past, AND is plagued by bad dreams of the government experiments that gave him the metal skeleton and claws... AND he doesn't like who he is: an animal-like, uncontrollable rage that erupts from him at times (like the Hulk), AND that 'bad things' seem to happen to people close to him. Logan's whole existence is defined by suffering - so you'd only want to be him, if you were an idiot.
• Cyclops can blast things with his 'optic blasts' - but he MUST have his eyes shielded at all times, with the exotic "sunglasses" or the 'Cyclops' visor; He can never do the simple thing of have someone look at his 'naked' face.
• Rogue can absorb others' life-force (or mutant powers), but she can't touch someone without the power kicking in: no kisses, no hugs, no handshakes, no lovemaking... so, it's a curse.
Dawn's Wolverine impression was the BEST!!!
I've never heard Sir Patrick Stewart described as a polar bear . . . and this is why I love Miss Dawn 💖
The yellow spandex reference at 23.00 refers to Wolverine in the X-Men comics. The recent Wolverine and Deadpool movie references this movie, when he gets his yellow outfit he's asked if he was expecting black leather
Magneto couldn't even walk unassisted after powering the machine the first time, so they wanted the girl to power it using his powers instead. They even referred to her as a sacrifice.
Back when I was still acting, I fought like crazy trying to get into this. I collected X-Men comics my whole life, and so dearly wanted to play Cyclops. I know that character like I know myself. Sent letters and emails to anyone and everyone involved with the film. Couldn't get a sniff.
Ah, what might have been.
20:06 welcome to Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
Knowing that you were reluctant to watch this, it was so much fun seeing how much you enjoyed the movie. Part 2 is even better and a fan favorite. Looking forward to your reactions for the rest of the series.
Best subscription ever.
Her and PopCornInBed are the best 2 on RUclips by far. Just wish they wouldn't waste an entire month doing crappy horror movies! A handful would be enough.
You're going to love Dawn if you're new. She's funnier than the films she watches
That was funny watching how quickly you went from don't want to watch it to being really invested in it. I give a lot of credit to the script writing for this one. It did a great job of introducing the idea of mutants and powers to a public that might have no knowledge of it to begin with.
I loved the part where you were getting emotional from seeing the kids find belonging in the school after experiencing rejection from their families and society. Mutants were created in the comics as a metaphor to do stories that commented on our fear and mistreatment of minorities or people who were different. That idea continues to be relevant.
"Do you know what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning?"
Like the script, I have been trying for years to think of a suitable conclusion to that line.
I think my best one was (and you have to put this in Halle Berry's voice):
"He croaks under pressure."
Has anyone ever come up with a good one?
Best reaction ever! And always fun when someone doesn't recognise Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart from everything else they've done!
"Currently, no one knows."
"His legs fall off and it's soup night in Paris."
Hello Dawn!😊 Wolverine had two spinoff films during the X-Men series but they are not great, IMO. Only the last wolverine film "Logan" (2017) is a great film. Wolverine's yellow costume originated from the comics. Great reactions to your first X-Men film, Dawn!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Can't wait for First Class... it's my favorite and it answers many of your questions...
Actress and Model Rebecca Romijn spent up to nine hours to get into the mystique outfit cause they painted it on her.
Dawn Marie is going to like each one better than the next I can tell!
16:44 "Oh. So you _didn't_ kill him."
No. She just realized how _terrible_ her power is. She can absorb someone's essence through skin-to-skin contact, but if she holds on too long, they die, whether she wants them to or not. This _could_ be an incredibly useful ability... if she could turn it off. That's what's truly unfortunate about Marie.
Toad in the comics originally could just jump well. He was called Toad in part because he was Magneto's toadie. This movie really made him more powerful and this bled into the comics.
Wolverine originally had a healing factor combined with animal-like senses (enhanced sense of smell primarily) as well as bone claws. The experiments grafted metal onto all of his bones, including his claws. I've often wondered why this didn't affect his teeth, but it turns out teeth aren't actually bone, despite what I'd been taught as a kid. Chalk that up on the board of things you learn in elementary school that aren't true, along with the idea that rabbits are rodents.
Next is X2, a great superhero movie on its own. Further down the line, you'll get to what is arguably the best prequel ever made with X-Men First Class. And then after The Wolverine, you'll come to what I consider to be the best superhero movie period, X-Men Days of Future Past.
After that you have what I consider to be the best superhero comedy in Deadpool
30:26 After this movie came out you could not go anywhere in the US without seeing glass chess sets for sale. They took over the game shelves at big box retailers and were even being sold at retailers that normally didn't carry board games like Blockbuster, Best Buy, and Circuit City. I even saw them for sale at convenience store gas stations. Fast forward to the future and they have been clogging the shelves at thrift stores ever since, lol. They have slowed down somewhat, but I remember a time in the mid 2000s where you couldn't kick them out of your way in thrift shops.
I enjoyed this reaction so much I wished I could jump immediately to your reaction to X2: United. Thank you, Dawn, for teaching me the value of deferred gratification.
The "yellow spandex" quip was a reference to the cartoons, where Wolverine wears a bright yellow spandex costume.
Regarding the blades hurting every time they come out, I'd imagine you'd become accustomed to the pain eventually, so the blades coming out is a minor pain. Considering Wolverine's natural mutant ability is regeneration, the pain likely doesn't last long, either.
In the comics, mutants are classified by relative human appearance and power level. Some look far from normal and have little power, others can have vast powers and look normal, and every combination therein.
I happen to have a long tongue. 😛 my wife says it's my super power
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As someone who has always been a comic reader, and marvel movie fanatic, its always so interesting watching someones reaction who knows NOTHING. I love it, Cause in my head im like, THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE. AND ITS NOT. AND IK ITS NOT. UR QUESTIONS ARE SO VALID. LMAO.
Logan's power is accelerated healing. It is what allowed him to survive the procedure that grafted adamantium onto his bone, a military experiment. Adamantium, when cast and hardened, is indestructable. Yes, he has great reflexes and senses. And if you had that healing factor how would your gym work pay off? You could easily get huge. And, hat tip to the actor, by the end of his run as the character, he is truly a Huge Jacked Man. Seriously. Logan is also very old. He has fought in many wars and is one of the most experienced and capable soldiers alive.
Ray Park, the actor who plays Toad, was also Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. Ray is a martial arts expert. Mystique is a very skilled mutant, aside from her shapeshifting. See the second film for more. It's really good. Also, Sabertooth is Logan's brother.
Director Bryan Singer claimed he’d never read the comics, and got all his backstory research from the classic ‘92 “X-Men: the Animated Series” cartoon, still one of the best Marvel 101 series ever made. Don’t know if it’s streaming on Disney+ Scotland, but we’ve got five seasons of the show streaming over here, for those who want to study up in a hurry, as well as the new “X-Men ‘97” revival that may be one of the best current shows on streaming.
4:30 Actually these movies.came from the.comics and the person who made those comics (Stan Lee) actually cameos in this movie and the others. There.was also a cartoon for X-men as well.
14:18 older guy with sunglasses, blue long sleeve button up shirt, and red shorts is Stan Lee (creator of the X-men and many other famous comics).
23:10 the yellow spandex is from the comics what his actual costume looked like in that.
24:55 yes basically a bodypaint oiutfit. I forgot how long it took for her to be made up for the scene, but there are some docimentaries that go behind the scenes and talked about it.
25:50 he smelled her before she talked to him.
To find out the history, watch them in RELEASE order. There is 2 more of this series, then there are "prequel" type of movies.
So X2, and X3: the last stand. Then Watch Xmen first class, .then days of future past, xmen: armageddon, and dark phoenix.
You will get a lot of backstories.
Magneato qanted to use Rogue because using the machine for such a large "blast" would kill him. So he gave Rogue is powers as she was expendable in his eyes. He would love, while she was used to power the machine to her death.
With all these super hero’s movies from Marvel, DC universes , plus such movies franchises as Transformers, Jane Bond, etc., you can react to movies till you’r over 60 years old, Dawn. And we’ll be with you all the way !!! Can’t wait for you to react to the 1st Captain America movie, Dawn !!! 😎👍💯
You know for someone who came into this with no knowledge of things, you did pretty damn well for picking up on things. Enjoyed your reaction a lot!
We all knew that the bit with you at the begining" no not interested in this because iv made up my mind" to then see more questions in the first 15 mins than we thought poss is great :) watch the rest of the films in order and then all, well most, questions will be answered >:)
The big guy is named sabertooth. Not all the X-Men’s rock, they all don’t suck either. Some of them are actually pretty freaking good. the fact that they were on the big screen is what we were happy about.
Dawn,
Glad you enjoyed this, and you picked up the story very well. X-Men has been around in the comics since the 1960's, with a library full of xpin-offs, retcons, alternate histories, and crossovers with other Marvel comics.
For the films, it is best to start with this one, and watch the others in release order. The continuity is not completely accurate between films, unfortunately. so be prepared for that. Some of the differences are explained, but can't say too much without spoiling it for you.
10:51 . . . The actor that played "Toad" had a cool part in one of the "Star Wars" movies . . .
11:09 . . . Stay tuned for Part II . . .
Darth Maul. Ray Park is really a Martial Artist turned actor, having been in his first movie as a stunt double in Mortal Kombat Annihilation for Liu Kang and Raiden. 😂
It shocks and saddens me when people can't recognize the Holocaust without having it explicitly stated that's what it is.
Poland, 1944, military herding people into caged off area, Star of David patches, forced labor, numbered tattoos. I wonder what this place could be.
"Lizzard (man)" That character-The Lizard is actually in the Spider-Man comic books
Dawn, you are right about Wolverine. His most remarkable power is his ability to heal, it makes him very nearly immortal. The adamantium skeleton enhancement and the claws was an experiment done to him called the Weapon X program. If he did not have that healing ability, doing that to him would have been fatal.
As for the climactic save, Rogue was on the edge of death, absorbs Wolverine's life force, then he was on the edge of death. Rogue is notable in the comics for the fact that she can actually steal other mutants' powers permanently, if she does it to the point where it kills them. (So she is one of the few who might be able to actually kill Wolverine, if that had scene had gone on a bit longer.)
The girl you thought you had seen somewhere else is Anna Paquin who played the main character Sookie Stockhouse in True Blood which is likely where you've seen her.
Great Reaction Once Again from you Dawn, Welcome to the X-men franchise I Can't even remember how many of these films they made.(Just like you i Didn't go to school either, Must be a Glasgow thing 😉🤣)Yeah your right Wolverine did get his own franchise the best one was Logan. Hang on a minute didn't you also have white hair, Omg Your Scottish Storm😊🙂Enjoy Your Weekend
If you didn’t see the Superman movie ,
“ Man Of Steel, “ you should react to this film very soon, you’ll have a crush on this new Superman like you did on the older Superman in the 70’s movies, Dawn !!!😃😎👍
Because I agree with Magneto, and I agree with Senator Kelly, I ultimately agree with Xavier's approach as the best solution.
18:19 "Oo, ya bugger!"
She loves her "OOO ya bugger" 's
When It comes to X Men is like my favorite I grew up with the cartoons and the movies I remember seeing this movie when it first came out in the theaters so this my favorite Marvel franchise.
4:58 Transformers #?: "Nah, that's Freddy Kruger's..." 😂😂😂
- we're all waiting now aren't we? ;)
Wolverine had the claws. The metal was surgically put around his bones. So now the claws are surrounded by metal. He can also self heal, has a great sense of smell and hearing,like a wolverine.
The bone claws were not added to his background until the early 90s. I want to say about '93 (it's been a while). From 1974-1992 the claws were only added with the adamantium skeleton.
Wolverine: Origins, The Wolverine, and finally, "Logan" please.
@16:10 - The extras in the railroad car scene did not know they were going to actually rip the car apart. So their reactions were real. In film/videos physical actions like that are called "practical effects", while camera tricks and CGI are called "special effects".
Genetic mutations (natural changes) are a real thing that happen all the time. The premise of the X-men stories is a particular gene evolved that allows people to gain powers. It was a small number at first, but due to atomic tests after 1945, the higher radiation levels caused more mutants to appear. But the underlying metaphor is the X-Men represent any group that is discriminated against or worse for being different.
The opening scene shows an example of that - Nazi-era herding of Jews and other "undesirables" into concentration camps to be killed or used as slaves. My mother's best friend was a camp survivor with a number tattoo'ed on her forearm, so that scene hits me hard.
Practical effects are special effects.
21:04 Who's this guy? Splashey man??
Storm,iceman ,magneto are what they call omega level mutants .. can’t really get more powerful.. to name a few
So tempted to spill all but I was chastised last time I got ahead of someone's starting a franchise but from the age of comic books I have been a fan of this genre Marvel, D. C. Love how you took to the genre and hope you continue, all smiles Dawn 😊
Why would you even be tempted to do that???
You're in for a wild ride. This is why it helps to keep an open mind. I would try to watch them based on the release date and not what someone else might recommend so that you'll see the movies as the audiences saw them, and not just the way that someone thinks they should be watched.
Oh and also, Magneto is Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, which should shock you.
I remember as a 7 year old girl i was turned off by the name but once i saw the movie i was hocked .
A truly delightful reaction. You're the best, DM. 🔥
"are you guys *X* friends?" 😅
"is Wolverine made of metal?" thinks to opening scene of Deadpool vs Wolverine.. why yes, yes he is!
A reality (within the scope of the X-Men) that I only just got... during the Statue of Liberty scene, Storm didn't have to do squat. Jean could have just just TK'd (telekinesis) Logan up to the torch herself. In the scope of the writing, I guess it makes some sense that they all work together, but given Jean's ability...
As far as who is the most powerful? Xavier is extremely powerful when it comes to the mind, but his range is limited without Cerebro. Jean has the potential of being just as powerful, but again (without the Phoenix Force which will be learned about later) is limited in range (as far as I know). Storm can can affect the Earth's atmosphere world-wide if she so chooses. She could very much turn the whole planet into an icecube or desert or covered in rampaging tornadoes. Magneto could theoretically throw the entire planet into the sun or pull every planet in the solar system into Earth. And there are other mutants even more crazy that will never grace the cinema screen.
I don't want to watch...yuck!!! Yeah,I love it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You're definitely special Dawn. Love you!!
This was a good, if safe, introduction to the X-Men. There are (starting with X2) 3 or 4 great movies in this franchise and some stinkers to balance things out.
The only thing that annoys me about these films is 1. How dirty they do both Scott and Jean 2. How tame the X-Men's powers are compared to the comics 3. How muddled the timeline gets. and despite how much I like Hugh Jackman 4. How much Wolverine they have showed down our throats over the last 25 years while neglecting other characters
But then X-Men 97' comes along and gives me everything I wanted since I was a teenager going to the comic shop every week in the 90's to grab all the new issues of the various X-Men titles... so alls well.
Mutantcy is typically *genetically inherited.* Sometimes a mutant inherits the same or similar powers as their parents, but sometimes their powers are completely different. Sometimes, you won't even inherit your parents' mutant genes at all, so it's possible to be born from mutants and not be a mutant yourself. But as you can see from Magneto's machine, there are methods to force mutation onto non-mutants.
When a toad is hit by lightning, it croaks. Dad joke 101
You asked "who's strongest?" That is kind of hard to answer, especially since there are many you haven't met yet. However, generally speaking, in this particular movie the two most powerful mutants would be Jean and Storm for reasons you haven't been introduced to yet. With all things nerd, you can definitely argue about this, but yeah, Jean and Storm have abilities that essentially make them goddesses. But it gets more complicated and WAY more nerdy the deeper you dive.
I dont know why people assume the word mutant is a negative thing! We are all mutants, unless you are an identical twin we all have variations of genes! Also you wanted wolverine to touch her so that she could absorb his powers, yet couldnt understand how magneto could put his power into her...
Most depictions of "mutant" in media is gross, deformed, ugly, people.
My favorite X-Men movie is X-Men origins Wolverine. I know the Internet loves to trash talk but I love it.
they had a blooper reel of scenes and one was instead of Wolverine when they were in the base of the Statue of Liberty, Spider-Man ran up behind them and the cast broke out laughing.
I'm so happy. I've hoped you'd dip your toes into the Marvel Universe for a long time now.
By the way, Magneto's power is what powered the mutant maker machine but using it at full power would kill him. That's why he moved his power to Rogue. He used her as a battery.
You're making pretty good guesses on things. Future movies start explaining it. It's going to be fun experiencing it again with you.
I first watched Deadpool & Wolverine last weekend, and have spent the past week binging reactions to it. Having become so accustomed to 2024 Hugh Jackman, 2000 Hugh Jackman looks like a child.
26:24 Copper conducts electricity. If Storm summons a lightning bolt to fry Magneto, she'd electrocute everyone there because the statue is made of copper. So yeah, not a great idea.
Somebody get Dawn a "Magneto Was Right" T-shirt.